Monday September 2, 2013

1:00 pm: American Radio Works One Child at a Time: Custom Learning in the Digital Age
Experts say technology creates new ways for schools to customize education for each student. This program documents the rise of so-called “personalized learning.” A look at schools that are reinventing their approach to education and explore how teaching and learning change when personalization replaces one-size-fits-all in the classroom.

Tuesday September 3, 2013

1:00 pm: It's Your World Michael Levi, Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change for the Council on Foreign Relations.
Advances in existing technologies have brought America to a new level of energy production. However, as energy demands continue to grow, the debate over where this energy should come from intensifies, with some arguing in favor of fossil fuels and others championing renewable power. Levi argues that both options offer great opportunities for the US to strengthen its economy, bolster its security and protect the environment.

Wednesday September 4, 2013

1:00 pm: City Arts and Lectures The Brilliance of Sleep - Dr. Matt Walker of the U.C. Berkeley’s Sleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory
Dr. Walker's team has found that Sleep benefits us not only in learning and memory but also in many other ways that improve our health.

Thursday September 5, 2013

1:00 pm: TED Radio Hour Memory Games
Memory is malleable, dynamic and elusive. When we tap into our memories, where’s the line between fact and fiction? How does our memory play tricks on us, and how can we train it to be more accurate? In this hour, TED speakers discuss how a nimble memory can improve your life, and how a frail memory might ruin someone else's.

Friday September 6, 2013

1:00 pm: Speaking in MaineCounter-Insurgency: One Size Doesn't Fit All
Speaking in Maine takes us next to Northport and the Midcoast Forum on Foreign Relations, for a talk by Slate Columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner, Fred Kaplan. Kaplan says that counter-insurgency is inseparable from nation-building, and anyone not willing to undertake the second has no business with the first.

Monday September 9, 2013

1:00 pm: American Radio WorksSecond Chance Diploma: Examining the GED
The GED — originally designed to help WWII veterans go to college — became the fallback option for millions of high school dropouts. And states must replace the GED, the only alternative high school credential recognized in all 50 states, with a new test in January 2014. Critics say the test is too easy and hardly the equivalent of a high school education.

Wednesday September 11, 2013

1:00 pm: It’s Your World Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club
Brune discusses how averting the potential global catastrophe caused by climate disruption is also a historic chance to create a better world, powered by clean energy prosperity. Hurricane Sandy, record wildfires and intensified cycles of drought and flood have awakened the American public to the climate crisis at hand. What few know is that the US has become a global leader in the fight to reduce carbon pollution.

Thursday September 12, 2013

1:00 pm: Speaking in Maine Secure or Second-Rate?: Austerity, Defense Budget Cuts and the Future of US Global Engagement
Speaking in Maine takes us next to the Mid-Maine Global Forum in Waterville. The speaker is Gordon Adams, professor in the US Foreign Policy Program at the School of International Service at American University and a columnist at Foreign Policy. Adams will speak about how domestic security is being affected by a dwindling defense budget and what it means for US global engagement.

Friday September 13, 2013

1:00 pm: It’s Your World Left Leaning Latin America: Understanding US Policy in the Region
Michael Shifter, President of Inter-American Dialogue, and Julia Sweig, Director of Latin America Studies for the Council on Foreign Relations

Monday September 16, 2013

1:00 pm: City Arts and Lectures Psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who is credited with co-founding the study of behavioral economics
In 2002, Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on the irrational ways in which humans make decisions about risk.

Tuesday September 17, 2013

1:00 pm: Ideas from the CBC In The Shadow of Steel
It was once an industrial powerhouse, earning nick-names like Steel Town or Lunch-Bucket City. Hamilton was the cradle of Canada's labour movement: a gritty, working-class town defined by steel-making. Now most of the jobs in steel are gone. IDEAS looks at how a city forges a new identity and a new economic dream.

Wednesday September 18, 2013

1:00 pm: Ted Radio Hour Predicting the Future
Visions of the future don’t just have to come from science fiction. There’s very real technology today giving us clues about how our future lives might be transformed. So what might our future look like? And what does it take for an idea about the future to become a reality? In this hour, TED speakers make some bold predictions and explain how our future lives might look.

Thursday September 19, 2013

1:00 pm: Intelligence Squared An Oxford Style debate on the following question: Is The U.S. Drone Program Fatally Flawed?
Remotely piloted aircraft, or drones, have been the centerpiece of America’s counterterrorism toolkit since the start of the Obama presidency, and the benefits have been clear. Their use has significantly weakened al Qaeda and the Taliban while keeping American troops out of harm’s way. But critics of drone strikes argue that the short-term gains do not outweigh the long-term consequences—among them, radicalization of a public outraged over civilian deaths. Is our drone program hurting, or helping, in the fight against terrorism?

Friday September 20, 2013

1:00 pm: Speaking in Maine
Speaking in Maine takes us next for Rockland for an address at the Maine Women's Policy Center from author Florence Williams, who will speak about her award-winning book Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History. Williams will explore how and why breast cancer rates have drastically increased since the 1940s and how it speaks to consumer products and the effect of chemicals on our bodies.

Wednesday September 25, 2013

1:00 pm: Ted Radio Hour Framing The Story
Stories ignite our imagination, let us leap over cultural walls and cross the barriers of time. Stories affirm who we are, and allow us to experience the similarities between ourselves and others, real or imagined. Stories help us make meaning of our lives. In this hour, TED speakers explore the art of storytelling -- and how good stories have the power to transform our perceptions of the world.

Thursday September 26, 2013

1:00 pm: It’s Your World Sustainable Agriculture
With the global population increasing at a rapid rate, sustainable agriculture is a key component for future planning. There is a need to improve productivity and access to meet global needs for nutrition while protecting the natural environment. What are the factors shaping agriculture and nutrition today and in the future? What are the barriers to scaling innovations? And what are the linkages among nutrition and health, learning and development?

Friday September 27, 2013

1:00 pm: Speaking in Maine Politics Then and Now, in Maine and the Nation
Speaking in Maine takes us next to Portland for a fall lecture series presented by USM's Muskie School and Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. The series will begin with former US Congressman Tom Allen, a Democrat who represented Maine's 1st Congressional District.

Monday September 30, 2013

1:00 pm: Speaking in Maine
Speaking in Maine takes us next to Portland and the Maine Historical Society for an address from author, Richard Rubin. Rubin will discuss his recent book The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten War.